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Grab your Tea and Blankets: We’re getting cozy!

Is there anything better than nestling up by the window with a hot beverage in one hand and a good book in the other? For some, there might be, but for others, this cozy feeling is as good as it gets. Everyone feels cozy in a different way, but they all share a similar feeling...

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Let it Go! How to Really Receive Feedback

Pain. Suffering. Disillusionment. Here’s a piece of candy! Doom.  Receiving feedback can be a lot like an intense deep-tissue massage. Nearly every moment of attention can make authors want to...

Whimsical, Dark, and Utterly Enchanting: Frightful Fairytales

Ever wonder what might be lurking in the forest behind Sleeping Beauty’s palace, or what those magic woods really have in store for Hansel and Gretel? Fairytale horror mingles the whimsies of magical...

The Violent, the Bleak, and the Ugly: Welcome to Grimdark

Okay, nerd moment. I have spent so much of my life lost in this subgenre. Since high school I’ve been a massive fan of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, and countless weekends have been spent painting...

Exploring the Enigmatic World of Lunar Punk

Ground control to Dreamers: in celebration of Volume 2 Dream Issue: Cosmos, we’ve collaborated with the fantastic editing team at Nocturnal Impressions to discuss the Lunar Punk subgenre. We’re so...

Secrets, Spells, and Shadowy Surprises: Investigating Occult Mystery

POV: You turn the corner around an uncharted aisle in the library. Breaking through cobwebs, you stray further from the sparse lighting as you pass by aged tomes. The aisle ends in shadows–or does it?...

The Mechanical Heart of Cyberpunk Fiction

What happens when technology becomes invasive? In modern contexts, we might say that the spread of AI and surveillance signifies just that, but a literary predecessor to this fear has existed for...

Power Plays: How Superhero Fantasy Zaps Speculative Fiction to Life!

Ever wonder what it’s like to fly at lightning speed or to save the world before breakfast? Superhero fantasy lets you do all that and more! Superhero fantasy is where larger-than-life powers meet...

Jerome’s Treasures: Speculative Subgenres We Want to See (And Some We Don’t)

As a flock, we try to be forthright about the content Jerome wants us to publish, but we understand that pulling the meaning from his messages can be difficult. After all, we still aren’t fluent in...

Author Interview: Ashley Mina

For every issue, Jerome and the Flock pick an exceptional author out of the ones roosting with us and pick their brains about writing, publishing, and tasty bugs. For the Sunrise issue, we had the...